To adopt the monarch butterfly as the national butterfly of the United States.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5627.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. RIBBLE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 162, No. 107, July 5, 2016, Page H4276):
  No section of Article I of the Constitution prohibits Congress from honoring flora and fauna of the United States.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record July 5, 2016 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  114 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 5627, 114th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/5627

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  February 4, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 22, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  6a6d0aca5376d28c5897139e08c25b3208993a1f932a87a2fd7f0021ddf111a9

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of February 4, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 5627, last updated February 4, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 22, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.